About the Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series

This is the home page for the Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series, sponsored by Apple, at the School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University. The faculty coordinator is Zico Kolter and the student coordinator is Adams Wei Yu. The mailing list for upcoming AI Seminar talk announcements is on the SCS mailman server. Unless otherwise noted, the meetings are on Tuesdays at 12:00 P.M. in NSH 3305. See more about CMU AI initiative here, or watch other talks at the CMU AI Youtube channel.

You are encouraged to give a talk! Please contact Adams Wei Yu for arrangement.

Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
August 29, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 1507	Jason Hartline	Northwestern University	Peer Grading and Mechanism Design	Ellen Vitercik
September 12, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Fei Fang	Carnegie Mellon University	Data-Aware Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Security, Sustainability, and Mobility
September 19, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Bhuwan Dhingra	Carnegie Mellon University	Neural Architectures for Reading and Reasoning over Documents
September 26, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 1507	Jianbo Ye	Pennsylvania State University	Optimal Transport for Machine Learning: The State-of-the-art Numerical Tools
October 3, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 1507	Nihar Shah	Carnegie Mellon University	Learning from People
October 10, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 1507	Chun-Liang Li	Carnegie Mellon University	MMD GAN: Towards Deeper Understanding of Moment Matching Network
October 17, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Xiaolong Wang	Carnegie Mellon University	Learning Visual Representations for Object Detection
October 24, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 1507	Zhiting Hu	Carnegie Mellon University	On Unifying Deep Generative Models
October 31, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	David Abel	Brown University	Abstraction and Lifelong Reinforcement Learning
November 7, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 1507	Hanxiao Liu	Carnegie Mellon University	Hierarchical Representations for Efficient Architecture Search
November 14, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Nika Haghtalab	Carnegie Mellon University	Algorithms for Generalized Topic Modeling
November 21, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Vaishnavh Nagarajan	Carnegie Mellon University	Gradient Descent GANs are locally stable
November 28, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Brandon Amos	Carnegie Mellon University	Modern Convex Optimization within Deep Learning
December 5, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Anson Kahng	Carnegie Mellon University	Impartial Rank Aggregation
December 12, 2017 12:00 PM NSH 3305	Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala	Carnegie Mellon University	Escaping saddle points in neural network training and other non-convex optimization problems

Links

• Back to current semester schedule
• Past AI seminars: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, 2010-2015, 2009, 2008, 2006-2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997.
• Other related seminars at CMU:
  • Machine Learning Lunch
  • ML/Google Distinguished Lectures
  • LTI Colloquium
  • VASC Seminar